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Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague.
Professor Lois Hetland , the former chair of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art, joins us to ask: what do artists and scienti...
Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on artificial intelligence, analogy, and abstraction . She r...
Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues co-direct the Laboratory of Morphogenesis at Rockefeller University. They are also married. Together, we reflect...
It’s surprising that for centuries, scientists have left the study of how to do science largely to non-scientists. Not anymore – thanks to t...
Ken Stanley is a highly regarded researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. After leaving his professorship at the Universi...
Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC , the European Research Council, and Professor of genetics at the University of Cologne. In this ep...
Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician celebrated for his free improvisations, and an educator whose books Free Play and The Art of Is have bec...
Akiko Iwasaki , a Yale professor and Howard Hughes Investigator, was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2024. Toget...
To answer this question, we speak with Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan from Google DeepMind about their groundbreaking AI co-s...
Professor Eve Marder is a pioneering neuroscientist at Brandeis University. Drawing on decades of work with a small neural circuit in lobste...
Martin Schwartz , a professor at Yale, is known for his work on integrins and his influential essay “ The importance of stupidity in scienti...
With Ethan Mollick , professor at Wharton and author of the bestselling “Co-Intelligence” , we explore how generative AI tools like ChatGPT...
David Baker , who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing novel proteins with AI, is a professor at the University of Wa...
Victor Ambros , newly awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of microRNA , is a developmental biologist at the University of Massachusett...
Meghan O'Rourke , acclaimed author of The Invisible Kingdom, poet , and Yale professor , joins us to explore the parallels between crea...
Keith Yamamoto , professor and science policy leader at UCSF, discusses with us how modern science became trapped in a system that discourag...
Peter Godfrey-Smith , a Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores with us the differences between creativ...
In this episode, Itai and Martin delve into the interplay between hypothesis-driven and exploratory research , drawing on insights from past...
In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems . Hig...
James Kaufman , Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, discusses the psychological underpinnings of creative...
MIT's Bob Weinberg is perhaps the world's most prominent cancer researcher. In this episode, Bob emphasizes that true innovation o...
Manu Prakash is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, asking biological questions with insights from physics. His most widel...
Dianne Newman – a molecular microbiologist at CalTech – is a professor both in Biology and Geology. In this episode, she encourages young sc...
Tina Seelig is Executive Director of the Knight-Hennessy-Scholars at Stanford University. She is widely known for teaching creativity course...
Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. He runs a lab at the MRC Laborator...
Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv is a professor working on the immune system at Harvard’s Medical School. In this episode, we discuss with her how she t...
Guy Yanai is a painter whose work is displayed in many public and private collections across the US, Europe, and Asia, including, for exampl...
George Church , professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, leads a large research group at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspire...
Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz directs research labs at both CalTech in the US and the University of Cambridge in England. Magdalena is one...
Night Science – coming up with novel ways to interpret the physical world – is as old as philosophy. In contrast, Day Science – empirical ev...
Bo Xia is a Junior Fellow at Harvard and a Principal Investigator at the Broad Institute. During his PhD with Itai, he suffered a painful ta...
Prof. Todd Golub , the Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has made important contributions to cancer research. In this epis...
Sean Carroll is a world-renowned scientist, author, educator, and an Oscar-nominated film producer. Sean sees storytelling as the key to all...
Nigel Goldenfeld is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in Physics at the University of California at San Diego. In this episode,...
Despite the variety of creative approaches practiced by different scientists, one tried-and-true though often overlooked — trick for generat...
Rich White studies cancer as a professor at Oxford University. Rich is not only a brilliant physician-scientist but also a great friend of I...
Carolyn Bertozzi is a Professor at Stanford University. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . In this episode we talk abou...
Stephen Quake is a Stanford University professor and the Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Among his many inventions...
John Mattick is Professor of RNA Biology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia . For decades, he has been on a mission t...
Peter J. Ratcliffe shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oxygen sensing in animal cells. He directs research...
Christina Curtis is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University’s Cancer...
Daniel Dennett , Professor at Tufts University, may be the most important living philosopher , tackling the biggest questions around: what i...
Howard Stone is a Professor of Engineering at Princeton. His research explores how fluid dynamics can help to understand diverse systems, fr...
Prisca Liberali is a senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland. In this episode, Prisca...
Tom Mullaney is a Professor of History at Stanford University and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress, and...
Bonnie Bassler is the Chair of the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton. In this episode, Bonnie talks about her passion for scientific...
Yukiko Yamashita is a biology professor at MIT and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Yukiko’s research is amazingly br...
Can you think of another big company CEO that does basic science? Stephen Wolfram is the CEO of Wolfram Research – the company that develope...
Laurence Hurst is a professor of Evolutionary Genetics and the founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at The University of Bat...
Edith Heard is a Professor at the Collège de France and the Director General of Europe’s “CERN for biologists”, the European Molecular Biolo...